Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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